Financial Software Engineer Lead - Trading/Risk Systems

Arena Investors, LP is a global investment management firm specializing in credit investing – both privateand public. Due to a new investment mandate, Arena is vastly expanding its credit market investmentstrategy.Arena’s Head of Software Development is looking for hands-on software team lead who will focus onmarket trading and risk systems including integrations with counterparties and internal reportinginfrastructure. The right candidate will balance technology skills with financial domain knowledge andgood communication skills.

As a development lead, this position would manage 2+ direct reports andwould drive projects from start to finish while working directly with their business constituents inportfolio management, risk and trading operations.This is a great opportunity to be at the “ground floor” of a new business unit that will be Arena’s growthdriver over the next 5 years. Ideal candidates will be organized, analytical, self-motivated, resourcefuland able to work effectively with all internal functional groups.

• Support all systems for trading, risk and market data: including configuration, integration andvendor management.• Enhancing trading capabilities and analysis with proprietary software development.• Work with Portfolio Management, Risk Officer, Trade Operations on data sourcing, dataprocessing, data analysis, automation and business intelligence. Translate their financial modelsand reports into technical specifications and either work with SAS vendors to implement and/ordevelop with internal/external resources.• Integrate and enhance reporting with vendor systems and in-house data warehouse andsecmaster.

The ideal candidate should have a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, performance-drivenenvironment and the capability to think broadly about the business and match problems to creativetechnology solutions.• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science or equivalent.• 10+ years experience in investment managers, hedge funds, with a focus on market-tradingworkflows.• Direct experience with Trading Systems (Broadridge/Eze/Charles River etc)• Direct experience with Risk Platforms (Broadridge/RiskMetrics/MSCI etc)• .Net Technology stack including C#, Entity Framework, MS-SQL, Nancy for REST & Web APIs• Microsoft SQL Server and related concepts (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Reporting Server, ETLs,data transformation)• Financial Modeling experience with emphasis on portfolio accounting, trade lifecycle, and risk.• Experience with third party Portfolio Accounting Systems (Geneva/VPM/Investran) and are a bigplus.• Comfortable with Agile/Scrum SDLC.• Excellent communication and project management skills.• Strong attention to detail.